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BHUBANESWAR: The Orissa government has cleared the proposal to lease a new bauxite mine in the southern district of Koraput to the National Aluminimum Company Limited (Nalco), a Navaratna Public Sector Undertaking (PSU). The state government gave its nod after almost a decade of holding the application from India's third largest aluminium maker, for the Pattangi mines. The new mine is estimated to have bauxite reserves of over 70 million tones. "The Orissa government has cleared the Pattangi bauxite mines for Nalco and recommended it to the Centre for final approval", state Steel and Mines Secretary AMR Dalwai on Tuesday told ET. The new mine is close to the Nalco's existing bauxite mines at Panchpatmali.

BHUBANESWAR: National Aluminium Company Limited (Nalco), a Navratna PSU, has so far spent more than Rs 56 crore for peripheral development in toto in Angul Sector, where its Smelter and Power Plants are located. Nalco has made it a policy to contribute 1% of its net profit of the year for peripheral development activities of the succeeding year. Out of this allocable fund, 40% is earmarked for Angul and Damanjodi sectors each, and 20% is for other areas. Besides, some major projects have been taken up at Angul, including permanent water supply project for 24 villages, in two phases, at a cost of Rs.10.

BHUBANESWAR: The public sector aluminium major, Nalco has drastically brought down the stock of explosive materials at its magazine house of its bauxite mines located in Koraput district of Orissa as part of the strategy to strengthen security measures in the aftermath of Naxals attack on April 12 last. The Company officials said here that the stock of explosive material such as booster-explosives, which was around 21.75 tonnes one month before the Naxals attack, has now been reduced to 2.25 tonnes, while the stock of column explosives has been brought down from 10.12 tonnes to 1.15 tonnes and that of ammonia nitrate from 3.95 tonnes to only 0.70 tonnes.

KOLKATA: Nine days after it was hit by a daring Maoist strike, National Aluminium Co (Nalco), the country's largest aluminium producer, finally resumed production at Damanjodi bauxite mines on Wednesday. However, this was not before the Nalco management gave in to workers' demand for truncated working hours. Nalco has a 500-strong workforce at its mines. "We have restarted operations at the mines this morning after the entire area was declared safe by the bomb squad of the state police force.

KOLKATA: A crack bomb disposal squad of the Orissa state police arrived at Nalco's Damanjodi mines on Friday to scan the area following last Sunday's daring Maoist attack. The delay in the squad's arrival, which has been busy providing poll security across Orissa on Thursday, will set back resumption of mining operations disrupted for already a week. Nalco, which produces nearly 4.8 million tonnes of bauxite annually, now hopes to start operations at its mines only on Sunday, if the bomb squad completes its job on Saturday and declares the mines area 'safe'.

BHUBANESWAR: The Maoists have once again struck in Orissa's southern district of Koraput. In the first-ever attack on corporate installations, the Maoists killed 10 Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) commandoes on Sunday night during nine hour encounter over the hill top bauxite mine of public sector National Aluminium Company Ltd [NALCO] at Damanjodi in the district. The Maoist attack has forced the Nalco authorities to stop mining works till the area is declared safe by the security personnel.

BHUBANESWAR: Buoyed by the Navaratna Status conferred upon it, National Aluminium Company Ltd (NALCO) has drawn ambitious growth plans worth Rs 40,000 crore involving projects abroad and within the country in a bid to emerge as a global giant. "In order to emerge as a company of global repute, we have drawn ambitious growth plans worth Rs 40,000 crore for the next five years. These include smelter and power projects in Indonesia and Iran," Nalco chairman R C Pradhan told reporters here.

NEW DELHI: India's leading aluminium producer Nalco continues to "struggle" for coal, even as its 1.6 million tons (MT) alumina refinery in Damanjodi, Orissa has started running to its optimum capacity, nine days after the firm scaled down production due to fuel shortage. "Alumina production has normalised at the Damanjodi plant since yesterday, but we continue to struggle for coal," Nalco Chairman and Managing Director C R Pradhan said. Coal is a major raw material that Nalco uses to generate steam for running its alumina refinery.

BHUBANESWAR: National Aluminium Co Ltd has resumed normal production at its alumina refinery, which was hit by a coal shortage last week, a company official said Monday. "On Sunday, we produced about 4,300 tonnes of alumina and on Monday we are close to 4,500 tonnes -- the full capacity of the refinery," a senior company official, who did not want to be named, told the media from Damanjodi. Output at the alumina refinery at Damanjodi in the eastern state of Orissa fell by half last week and the company had said the unit would be shut if coal supplies did not improve in a few days.

NEW DELHI: India's National Aluminium Co Ltd scaled back operations at its Orissa alumina refinery by half from Saturday because of a coal shortage, but a shutdown was unlikely with supplies set to improve, the firm said. "The possibility of shutting down of alumina refinery is remote. Action has already been initiated to normalise the coal supply with the help of the Ministry of Mines and Ministry of Coal," the company said. It said the reduction in output was temporary and would be made up after coal supplies improved.